Google, Facebook update contrasting plans to connect world
By JOSEPH WILSON Sci-fi solutions or making friends one at a time? Google and Facebook are taking different routes to expanding Internet use and access among the unconnected in developing…
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Vilsack: Smart phones could tell consumers what’s in food
By MARY CLARE JALONICK In the ever-complicated debate over labeling of genetically modified foods, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he has an idea: use your smart phone. Vilsack told members…
Snowden leak: NSA helped British steal cell phone codes
By KEN DILANIAN Britain’s electronic spying agency, in cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency, hacked into the networks of a Dutch company to steal codes that allow both governments…
2 dead, over 170 potentially exposed in ‘superbug’ outbreak
By ROBERT JABLON Contaminated medical instruments are suspected in a “superbug” outbreak at a Los Angeles hospital that has infected at least seven patients, two of whom died. More than…
Drone on: US proposes rules for the era of drones
By JOAN LOWY Drone on, the government says.Just not through the night sky. Or close to an airport. Or out of the operator’s sight. And probably not winging its way…
Feds subpoena records pertaining to departing Oregon gov.
By JONATHAN J. COOPER Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced his resignation Friday over a deepening influence-peddling scandal surrounding his fiancée and on the same day the U.S. Attorney’s Office issued…
Negotiators agree on early draft of UN climate deal
U.N. negotiators have produced an early draft of what eventually should become a landmark climate deal in Paris next December, piling on pages to make sure it reflected every country’s…
Are you a hack waiting to happen? Your boss wants to know
By BARBARA ORTUTAY Are you a hack waiting to happen? Your boss wants to find out. High-profile hacks have companies on the defensive, trying to prevent becoming the next Sony…